Jasper, Indiana was once the piano capital of the world. The installation of a new mural in the small southern Indiana redounds to that legacy. In partnership with the City of Jasper, the Dubois County Community Foundation, the Heart of Jasper organization, and the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement (CRE), students and faculty from the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design’s worked through the school’s ServeDesign Center on a public art project bolstering the city’s efforts to revitalize its downtown.
A dedication ceremony for what has come to be known as Piano Alley takes place Tuesday, October 10 at 4 p.m. on Jasper’s downtown square.
The project transforms an alley just off the southeastern corner of the downtown square with a multicolored abstract mural, extending across the walkway and up to the second story of the adjacent building. An adage arcs across the center of the brick wall: “Where words fail, Music Speaks.” The colorful stripes down the alley that alternate with black keys reinforce the musical motif, a reference to Jasper’s onetime preeminence in piano manufacturing.
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